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First of the ex-kings to fall was long-faced, impetuous Bill Tilden, whose tennis was good for a 53-year-old but not good enough to beat 30-year-old Wayne Sabin. Sabin advanced to the quarterfinals, there met Britain's onetime Davis Cupper Fred Perry. Falling behind, trigger-tempered Wayne Sabin began swearing and banging balls out of the arena. At one point, Perry stopped the game, announced: "I won't play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting...
Married. Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant, 35, former Davis Cupper; and Marie Cleveland, 35, no tennis player; in Atlanta. Bitsy took his bride and three rackets on a honeymoon to Florida and Bermuda...
...came the first day when 16-year-old Herb Flam (TIME, Aug. 13) began skidding on the smooth turf, shook off his shoes and blasted Argentina's No. 2 player, Heraldo Weiss off the court. There's a coming Davis Cupper, said wise old tongues. Next day, Lieut. Gardnar Mulloy was an upset victim, succumbing to Major Frank Guernsey, a pint-size fighter pilot who prefers golf to tennis...
...liberation, French tennis stars of the gay, bygone days have been creeping back in the news. (Notable exception: flamboyant Jean Borotra, last reported under arrest as Vichy's ex-Sports Director.) This week Yvon Petra, a native of Indo-China, captured the French championship by defeating former Davis Cupper Bernard Destremeau, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. Then dapper little Henri Cochet, 45-year-old ace of the '20s, paired with Pierre Pellizza to win the doubles crown from Petra and Destremeau...
Labor Day was Talbert's 26th birthday. He hoped it was a good omen for his finals match with Sergeant Frank Parker, the onetime boy wonder and Davis Cupper, whose mechanical, methodical steadiness had often carried him close, but never quite to, the title. Parker, with a day of rest after his four-set semifinal win over Lieut. Don McNeil, was on the top of his smooth game. Talbert's only hope was to reach the net, and he seldom managed it except in the second set. Parker...